New digital print agreement signed

RR Donnelley & Sons Company and Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) have agreed to develop, manufacture and sell next generation piezoelectric digital inkjet printing solutions to the packaging, securities, commercial, and newspaper segments.  Under the terms of the agreement, RR Donnelley will license its Apollo and other digital imaging technologies to KBA, which will incorporate them into its presses.  KBA’s new digital press will be introduced at drupa 2010 in Dusseldorf.
 
‘RR Donnelley and KBA have long been leaders and innovators in our respective industries’, said Thomas J. Quinlan III, RR Donnelley’s president and CEO.  ‘We look forward to having the combined R&D resources of nearly 1,000 engineers and imaging scientists bring forward the next generation of digital imaging technologies. This relationship will benefit the customers we serve today and enable RR Donnelley innovations to be introduced to customers in segments that we do not yet address.’
 
‘KBA has spent the last 18 months assessing current and future digital printing technologies,’ said Helge Hansen, CEO of KBA.  ‘In our analysis, it was clear that RR Donnelley was uniquely positioned to partner us from a digital print technology, experience, and scale perspective.  It’s more than a sales and service agreement for existing technology, and we look forward to reinvigorating this industry with new digital imaging platforms.’